exrate MCP server — central bank rates for AI assistants
MCP server at mcp.banks-rates.com. Add it to Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor, ChatGPT or any MCP-compatible client and your assistant gets live access to daily rates from 9 national central banks.
Setup
Claude Desktop
{
"mcpServers": {
"exrate": {
"type": "http",
"url": "https://mcp.banks-rates.com/"
}
}
} Claude Code
claude mcp add exrate https://mcp.banks-rates.com/ Cursor
// Cursor → Settings → MCP → Add Server
// URL: https://mcp.banks-rates.com/ Server URL is the same across every MCP-compatible client: https://mcp.banks-rates.com/.
What your AI can do with this MCP
- Get USD/PLN at NBP today.
- Get historical EUR/CZK at CNB on 2024-03-15.
- Convert 1500 USD to GEL using NBG's rate for last Friday.
- Fetch all six banks' rates for one currency at once.
- Compute cross-rates (e.g., GBP/CZK) via a chosen national bank's national currency.
- Compare today's rate to the previous business day for accounting fallback.
- Pull a 30/90/365-day series for a bank+currency pair.
- List which currencies a given bank publishes.
- Get the freshness timestamp per bank to detect ingestion lag.
Example prompts
- "What was the NBP rate for 100 USD on 2024-03-15? Use the previous business day if it wasn't quoted."
- "Compare today's USD/PLN rate at NBP, ECB and CNB."
- "Pull a 90-day series for EUR/CZK at CNB and tell me the volatility."
- "For each of the 9 central banks, give me today's USD rate."
Frequently asked questions
Does this work with Claude Desktop and Claude Code?
Yes — both. Setup snippets above. Same URL works for ChatGPT custom GPTs and Cursor.
Is the MCP free?
Yes — same free service as the rest of exrate.
What tools does the MCP expose?
get_rate, list_banks, get_status, get_series — covering every operation the REST API supports.
Can my AI compute cross-rates?
Yes — call get_rate twice via the national currency and divide. Or pass a cross specification directly.
Is there a usage limit?
Per-IP rate limits at the edge. Typical assistant chat patterns will never hit them.